Review of Then Her Wig Fell Off: Sometimes We Just Need to Laugh By Will Bevis Available through Amazon for $1.99 This e-book delivers on its promise to make you laugh. Not just a chuckle, but a full body down to your toes laugh that heals the bit of our soul that life wears down. …
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Sometimes
Sometimes the Strong need the reassurance the arms to see them through Someone to take the burden Just for a little while.. just for a little while Someone to come to the rescue just once, just once or maybe just one more time.
One Name: Two Fates
Review of The Other West Moore By Wes Moore Available through Amazon Since the day that NPR aired a story on this book it has been on my reading list. It was one of the first books that I added to my current reading list on Goodreads. Then I purchased my kindle and material reading …
A Favorite Childhood Poem
When I was a wee rosebud a teacher introduced me to Shel Silverstein and his marvelously lyrical and whimsical poems. The poem Where the Sidewalks Ends has always captivated me. The first community that I remember living in was Burke Centre, outside Washington, D.C., an ambiguous region known as NOVA. The sidewalks went on for miles and …
My Happy Puppy Tail Ending
This post was going to wait a month so that I could be sure that Luke was going to be staying with me. A week into our relationship I can't imagine life without him. He is my puppy-dog and I am his person. How Luke Came To Live in My Little Yellow House The day …
An Update On Tank
Sweet little Tank is resting with his Momma. Or at least I hope he is.. He was taken back a week ago. Apparently, the daughter that was in Chicago returned home with a fashionable anklet to reclaim her puppy. The family couldn't afford to keep Tank because another member was about to be heading off …
“I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!”
Those are words of Sally Fields when she won the Oscar in 1984. Honest.. The full quote is "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you …
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The Nation’s Critical Thinking Test
Each day brings us closer to election time. The news is already on information overload. Both candidates have supporters, ads and an agenda. The country if you believe the media is crisis and it may very well be. Things are definitely not going well. People are angry and rightly so, but are they angry about the …
The Tree of Liberty
Thomas Jefferson, the third president of United States of America, is quoted as saying that "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Independence day marks the anniversary of our country beginning its fight for independence. The tree has been water time and time again …
Downtime? What’s that?
I am on day three of my mini-staycation. I am off until next Saturday, a truly rare miracle. It is time I need to rest, read, write and repeat. Well, mostly rest. I need a break. A break from the rush of working multiple jobs, writing and trying to stay sane all at the same …